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...country disintegrating in civil war is starkly at odds with Nepal's enduring image as an enchanted Shangri-la, a place frozen in time. Yet it is the country's backwardness, so charming to backpackers, mountaineers and jet-setters alike, that lies at the heart of the deadly turmoil. Though Kathmandu has enjoyed steady modernization, in the rugged hinterlands the time warp that shrouds the Himalayan kingdom?according to the Nepalese calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates that...
...latent social turmoil of the 1960s was soon to erupt on college campuses across the nation—and Harvard was no exception. As the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war gathered momentum, Ford found himself at the helm of a faculty beset by social and political strife...
...spite of the social turmoil that defined his deanship, Ford oversaw a period of great physical growth in Harvard’s history, authorizing the construction of the Science Center and Mather House, as well as the renovation of many buildings in Harvard Yard. In a 1968 profile in The Crimson, Ford was quoted as saying that his idea of improvement at Harvard was “doing more of some things without doing less of others...
...spite of the social turmoil that defined his deanship, Ford oversaw a period of great physical growth in Harvard’s history, authorizing the construction of the Science Center and Mather House, as well as the renovation of many buildings in Harvard Yard. In a 1968 profile in the Crimson, Ford was quoted as saying that his idea of improvement at Harvard was “doing more of some things without doing less of others...
...latent social turmoil of the 1960s was soon to erupt on college campuses across the nation—and Harvard was no exception. As the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam war gathered momentum, Ford found himself at the helm of a faculty beset by social and political strife...